Install In-House iOS wirelessly using manifest.plist no longer works with iOS 8

Question

We have a distribution scheme inside the house that includes the .ipa and manifest.plist files hosted on the web server. A simple web page allows the user to select the version of the application and click to install it. When a user clicks on a link in Safari on an iPad with iOS 8, he asks if he likes to install the application and do nothing after clicking “Install”. Missing errors or installation progress icon ...

This is the scheme that we used a year before, and I can confirm that it works with iOS 7, as well as with the beta version of iOS 8 (for now, too). It does not work with iOS 8. iOS 8 seems to block it. Has anyone already encountered a problem or knows how to get around it?

The server has MIME types installed:

- application / octet-stream ipa
- text / xml plist

The manifest.plist file is located below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>items</key> <array> <dict> <key>assets</key> <array> <dict> <key>kind</key> <string>software-package</string> <key>url</key> <string>http://example.com:8079/foo.ipa</string> </dict> </array> <key>metadata</key> <dict> <key>bundle-identifier</key> <string>com.example.fooapp</string> <key>bundle-version</key> <string>1.0</string> <key>kind</key> <string>software</string> <key>title</key> <string>Example Corporate App</string> </dict> </dict> </array> </dict> </plist> 

Answer 1

You can also simply change the package identifier in the Manifest.plist file, for example:

 <key>bundle-identifier</key> <string>com.example.fooappNew</string> 

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Answer 2

Same problem with my application. Fixed by changing the name of the application package, creating a new application identifier and creating a new provisioning profile.